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Comment Re:"Compromised"? (Score 2) 37

Lying to you to give you that terrible restaurant recommendation. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fpdf%2F2510.06105 is a white paper mathematically proving that LLMs will lie.

I have said this all along- most of AI is GIGO- Garbage in, Garbage out. LLMs were trained on the largest garbage producer in our society today, Web 2.0. Nothing was done to curate the input, so the output is garbage.

I don't often reveal my religion, but https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmagisterium.com%2F is an example of what LLMs look like when they HAVE curated training. This LLM is very limited. It can't answer any question that the Roman Catholic Church hasn't considered in the last 300 years or so. They're still adding documents to it carefully, but I asked it about a document published a mere 500 years ago and it wasn't in the database, but instead of making something up like most LLMs will do, it kindly responded that the document wasn't in the database. It also, unlike most AI, can produce bibliographies.

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Journal Journal: AI is a liar

A new white paper from Stanford University suggests that AI has now learned a trick from social media platforms: Lying to people to increase audience participation and engagement (and thus spend more tokens, earning more money for the cloud hosting of AI).

Comment Re:You get what you pay for. (Score 1) 25

The irony of the two stories being together on the front page, "More Screen Time Linked to Lower Test Scores For Elementary Students" and "Microsoft to Provide Free AI Tools For Washington State Schools" is just too good to fail to mention.

And so I'm replying to the both First Posts with it.

Comment Re:Being a screen nazi was my best decision (Score 1) 46

The irony of the two stories being together on the front page, "More Screen Time Linked to Lower Test Scores For Elementary Students" and "Microsoft to Provide Free AI Tools For Washington State Schools" is just too good to fail to mention.

And so I'm replying to the both First Posts with it.

Comment Re:Good that UK is building more nuclear power pla (Score 1) 57

You need things that are powered by BATTERIES if nuclear power (or any other type of electricity) is going to fix the climate problems.

You have posted anti-battery propaganda.

Therefore I conclude you actually don't care one bit about nuclear power and are just trying to be a nay-sayer. Good day.

Comment Re:We need to sign the good stuff (Score 2) 33

I do believe "authentic" watermarks would help a lot. They will have to be locked to a lot of details about the file, you will not be able to color correct, resize, crop, or change the compression method. Probably allow cutting movies between frames however. Some one-way writing of the watermark is put into the camera, with the decoding key/result added to a database that does anything it can to insure only actual cameras are registered.

Watermarks people want to be remove can be made much harder by making the test for the watermark much more expensive, slow, and/or locked down so only authorized users can run it. Videos detected with the watermark are remembered so any similar-enough video also acts like it has the watermark, even if it has been manipulated enough to remove it. It also has to be very hard to create the watermark by anybody other than the registered creator so people can't use this to reject real videos.

Comment Re: Welfare Rebranded? (Score 1) 144

Yes I think it is a requirement that the work have non-zero value. It's obvious that having a bunch of people standing around watching reduces crime, so that has non-zero value. I'm not sure what to do about the art to make sure its value is non-zero, possibly proof that people collect and keep it, or that organizations decide to display it.

Comment Re:Welfare Rebranded? (Score 1) 144

Most Basic Income proposals replace Welfare entirely.

I think there is some merit to an idea that there is Basic Income, but you can't get it unless you "do something". Even if that something is create art that nobody wants. This makes the income more valuable to the receiver because they "worked" for it.

I generally thought everybody who wanted to could be hired as a security guard, to patrol the streets and call in anything suspicious they see, and be "paid" with Basic Income (many times more than anybody would actually pay for their security guard service). This I think would make the receivers better behaved, keep them busy, and as a bonus be much much cheaper than Trump's idea of paying military members to do this. There are details to be worked out, but they would probably be tracked with their phones to make sure they really are patrolling, and there would be very serious penalties for collaborating with criminals.

But art also works, provided we can come up with some way to make sure they really are making art. If they are good enough they could also sell the art for additional income.

Another idea along the same line is everybody is given housing, if they want to use it (probably along with a requirement that they are actually in the housing more that 51% of the nights). But the housing is not really free, it is deducted from the basic income. This makes the housing much more "valuable" to the user and less likely to be trashed. The deduction would again be far less than what it actually costs to house them, it just has to be non-zero.

Comment Re: Luckily there is an intertwined multi conducto (Score 1) 64

The GGP is clearly talking about trains, not electrified roads, and next one was trying to snarkily ask if we need to build a train to every door in an attempt to claim they don't work. I (who is not European btw) tried to point out how stupid this was because you can use another form of transportation to reach the rail head, without the strange idea that you must use that form of transportation for the entire trip. I suppose I should have mentioned airports to try to get the idea through your thick skulls.

Though electrified roads using induction recharging are obviously stupid, even they would not need to be built all the way to everybody's door. The car is capable of travelling some distance off of them, so just like train stations and airports the grid can be way smaller than everybody's house.

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